> BM>When I have to give my dog a pill, I put it in her food bowl, squeeze a
 > worm
 > BM>of
 > BM>peanut butter on it, and offer it to her.  The pill is history in a half
 > BM>second, but it takes her three more minutes to lick every peanut butter
 > BM>molecule out of the bowl.  She's very enthusiastic when she knows she's
 > goin
 > BM>to get a peanut-butter coated pill! 

 >   Our weenie dog, Slinky...just like Fritz, his
 > predecessor...LOVES his
 > heartworm pill (it's liver), and he devours it!! Our
 > neighbors dog,
 > Mollie, a brussels griffon, HATES liver...and whenever
 > you try to sneak
 > the pill to her, she'll pick it out of the food, or
 > spit it out. You
 > have to practically hold her, force it down her
 > throat, and hope she
 > doesn't barf it back up.

Dogs can be fussy, can't they?  It's a little hard to discover that when
you have to secure the kitchen and bathroom waste from their rummaging.

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